I (perhaps unwisely) posted on Facebook: "birth control, abortion, health care, or education -- you must choose at least one", trying to prove a point. All my Republican friends quickly answered "education!" thinking that was the least yucky choice, forgetting that their current Secretary of Education wants to effectively defund public education.

The point I was getting at was that we as a modern, wealthy society have a moral obligation to care for humans. We can either pay to prevent them from being conceived, pay to prevent them from being born, pay to educate them, or pay to take care of them on their death beds. I'll add another option: Or we can pay to send them to prison. Either way, we'll pay for something. Choosing none of the above is delusional and not an option.

If you're against birth control and abortion, you're pro-birth, not pro-life. You don't care about saving a life, you just want a child to be born because you think a zygote is equivalent to a human being. That's fine in a sense, but you can't then throw your hands up in exasperation at the idea of paying for a child's education or making medical care affordable. If you choose to reject all these options, you're left with the one that can't be avoided, which is paying to send people to prison due to the failure of all of the above.

You must choose at least one. My preference would be to choose all of the above. #sociology